Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 13:14:48 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPMI doesn't work... Message-ID: <200503162114.j2GLEm2A020679@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <42364E75.8030205@elischer.org>
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Julian Elischer writes: | Jeff wrote: | > I'm not sure what you mean by in band. The IP address of the BMC is | > assigned via the bios and is different from what the OS later | > assigns. With imiptool we can turn on/powercycle/monitor via the BMC | > assigned address up until the point where the kernel loads. Once it | > does, the BMC no longer responds. This doesn't happen with the two | > linux distros we've tried it on. Wtih both, including SuSE, we can | > still query/control via the BMC using ipmitool. It seems to be some | > sort of driver issue to me. I find it confusing that the NIC is | > shared between the BMC and the OS, but I guess that's just how it's | > done. Perhaps the bsd broadcomm driver is simply blocking this | > somehow... | | you have to assign it the same address! Huh? The IPMI IP address and host OS IP address does not have to be the same. I have them set different on the Dell boxes here. They have different MAC addresses. What you mean they have to have the same address? Doug A.
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